Ag Policy Intern Scholars Summer 2024

Racquel Garcia – California Department of Food and Agriculture– transferred from the College of the Sequoias, Visalia Campus to the University of California, Merced majoring in Political Science with an emphasis in American Politics and Law & Policy. She is currently attending her last semester. She was born and raised in Visalia, California in an immigrant Mexican household. Before transferring to UC Merced, she worked at the DREAM Center and the Student Success Center as a student worker. At the DREAM Center, she noticed how much she loved to help people access the tools they need to face In the Spring of 2022, Racquel had the opportunity to participate in an electoral forum with a League of Women Voters where she realized how much she could do with her degree. She’s always had a passion for helping others and securing herself with the knowledge necessary to she was taught she would need to get ahead. Her mother taught her the value of an education and to pursue her passions. She had the opportunity to take part in the University of California DC program where she worked with a local non-profit called Learning Life in the Fall of 2023. She hopes to attend law school and pursue a career related to labor law, human rights law, or immigration law. Through her future law career, she hopes to provide knowledge and understanding to many people and to prevent or undo injustice.

Nour Rabieh – Nour is a senior at California State University, Stanislaus. Her major is in agriculture education, and she desires to engage with students and inspire them to follow their aspirations to the fullest. Nour experienced struggles in school at an early age, which now drives her to do her best and engage with others so she can inspire them to do their best.

Tarandeep Singh- California Department of Food and Agriculture- is a senior at Fresno State and is majoring in Political Science. He is from Sacramento, CA and moved to Fresno to attend Fresno State. His interest in Political Science started from when he was in middle school in his 8th grade history class. He fell in love with the subject and that passion for learning carried over to high school as his interest peaked in courses centered around US and World History. After a couple of years at his community college in Sacramento taking courses in Marketing, Art Theatre, and Sociology, Tarandeep revisited this passion and enrolled in a Comparative Politics course. In it, he learned about the formation of numerous different ideologies such as fascism, communism, and socialism. After seeing the way that different governments worked, he decided that Political Science was going to be the major he’d pursue a Bachelor’s degree in. After obtaining his undergraduate degree in Political Science at Fresno State, Tarandeep plans on pursuing a graduate degree in Public Policy to become a Public Policy Analyst. As an intern with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, he plans on learning how to research and read legislation, look at historical trends for agricultural policies, and what is going on with current issues to see what can be done about them.